Chapter 933: A Generation of Heroes Came to an Ugly End

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Huang Chao's proposal is very tempting, but today's Li Keyong is no longer the hairy boy he was back then. Even three years ago, when Huang Chao was at his strongest, Li Keyong would not necessarily be tempted by his words, let alone believe in his temptation when Huang Chao was clearly about to be destroyed.

The current Huang Chao is difficult to save even the gods, and at this time, he is mixed with him, isn't there a lack of brains.

Li Keyong's reply to the envoy of the Yellow Nest was very simple and clear, he took back his own people, and then smiled at all the precious money sent by the Yellow Nest, and then distributed it to his soldiers.

After offering the head of the envoy to the flag, Li Keyong personally led the main force of Hedong to cross the Yellow River from the Haoyang ferry upstream of Pujin Bridge and stationed in Tongzhou.

When the Hedong Army entered the customs, Zhang Juyan, a general of the Qi Army who had repeatedly created miracles before, suffered defeat this time. He and Lin Yan and the Hedong Army fought in the Shayuan battle in the east of Chang'an, and finally retreated due to lack of troops, especially when Li Quanzhong and Zhuge Shuang of Tongguan, Li Sigong and Dongfang Kui in the north and Wang Chongrong and so on At this time, they also saw that the situation was going well, and they suddenly swarmed and beat the water dogs, Zhang Juyan and Lin Yan faced the Eastern Front coalition army of more than 100,000 people, and finally defeated again and again, until they were defeated at the foot of Chang'an.

Dudu Tong Wang Duo was very happy, seeing that Huang Chao was about to be exterminated under his command, but at this time, the Yang Fugong brothers suddenly led their troops to approach his military camp. into an encirclement situation. Then Yang Fugong served as the envoy of the Tenth Army and the Twelve Guards of the Guard, the Privy Council, and the lieutenant of the Shence Army. In the name of the emperor, Wang Duo was deposed as commander-in-chief. Yang Fugong's reason was that Wang Duo had been in charge of the capital for a long time, but he had not built a large number of achievements, and the corpse was just a vegetarian meal, so he was dismissed from the post of capital commander, and the position of commander-in-chief of the coalition army was awarded to Li Keyong, the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu who had just performed prominently.

It should be said that it is a matter of time before Wang Duo will be dismissed. After all, he was nominated by Tian Lingzi for appointment and dismissal, and in the current situation of internal division among eunuchs, how could the Yang brothers let Tian Lingzi's people sit in such an important position all the time. Even if Wang Duo has fallen to them, he is not really his own person after all, and now that the situation is clear, they no longer need Wang Duo. Giving the position of the capital to Li Ke is also to see Li Ke's strong performance, which is still much stronger than Zhuzhen. This made them more and more interested in winning over Li Keyong, and the position of all of them was an excellent bargaining chip.

Chang'an City is afraid that Huangchao is now desperate. He wanted to break through the blockade and jump out of the cage of Chang'an. The plan to continue the previous mobile operation has completely failed. Faced with the coalition forces oppressed from the east, west and south, Huang Chao made a decision to fight the Tang army to the death in Chang'an City.

In August, both sides were doing their best to deploy troops.

In the middle of the month, the two sides of the most rearly assembled, the Qi army gathered the most elite 150,000 people, the troops out of Chang'an City, stationed in Liangtianpi, thirty miles west of Huazhou, by the Taiwei Zhongshu Ling Shang Rang as the main commander, with Zhao Zhang in the service and the new privy envoy Zhang Juyan as the deputy marshal, in addition to the meritorious military envoy Lin Yan, Jingzhao Yin Wang Fan and the two princes Huang Ye and Huang Kuo all participated in the battle.

The opponent was the Hankeng Tang Dynasty coalition army stationed in the west of Shayuan, Li Ke used 65,000, Wang Chongrong 30,000, Yang Fuguang brothers commanded 80,000 soldiers and horses, in addition to several towns of soldiers and horses, adding up to 250,000 people. The number was almost twice as large as the Qi army.

On August 16, Li Keyong, the newly appointed commander of the capital, personally led the Shatuo cavalry to take the lead, the Tang Dynasty coalition army launched an attack, and the Qi army except for the two princes who led a partial division to attack Huazhou in the south, more than 100,000 main forces formed a formation to meet the enemy, with Shang Rang commanding the Chinese army, Wang Fan, Lin Yan commanding the left wing, Zhang Juyan, Zhao Zhang commanding the right wing, and Li Keyong and other Tang armies to fight to the death.

The battle lasted from noon to evening, the outnumbered Qi army finally could not support, the whole line collapsed, the Tang army took advantage of the victory to chase and kill, the Qi army was defeated and the corpses were more than 30 miles, and 100,000 people were beheaded and captured, including Zhao Zhang, the third person of the Great Qi Dynasty.

The Qi army was completely lost, and after Huang Chao heard the news in Chang'an, he immediately ordered Chang'an to be burned, and then took the men and horses left behind in Chang'an to break through to the southwest overnight!

Huang Chao's two brothers won the victory with the partial division at this time, and they captured Huazhou, giving Huang Chao a chance to escape.

However, Huang Chao's retreat plan was not successful, just when Huang Chao was preparing to withdraw from Lantian through Wuguan, Zhu Quanzhong stationed on the southern line and Qin Zongquan, Zhou Qi and other towns totaled 100,000 soldiers and horses, seeing that the situation on the eastern front was very good, at this time under the command of Zhu Quanzhong, quickly pounced on Wuguan, and it took only one day to take Wuguan, and then went straight into the pass, Huang Chao just came out of Chang'an, Zhu Quanzhong had already killed Lantian.

Huang Chao was forced to retreat to Chang'an again to do the most difficult battle of trapped beasts.

On August 27, the eleventh day after the Battle of Liangtianpi, Li Keyong, who had completed his rest and replenishment, once again led his army back and surrounded Huazhou, trapping Huang Ye and Huang Kui in the city. Huang Chao retreated to Chang'an, so after receiving his brother's letter for help, he asked Shang Rang to regroup the defeated army to rescue Huazhou, trying to keep the only way out.

When Li Keyong heard the news, he adopted the strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements, leaving only a few troops to surround Huazhou, and he led the main force to move westward with Wang Chongrong's Hezhong army, and attacked Shang Rang's rescue Qi army head-on. On September 6, Li Keyong and Wang Chongrong defeated the Qi army and a hundred miles east of Chang'an, Shang Rang led the remnants of the army to flee into Chang'an in a hurry, Li Keyong pursued with victory, the army entered Dongwei Bridge, and divided troops to occupy Huabei.

In order to hit the morale of Huang Chao's army, Li Keyong began to transfer his new army Flying Tigers team, which imitated Li Jing's Qin army's Yingyang Special Warfare Army, and divided this elite special forces into several small detachments, and used the night to infiltrate Chang'an City to carry out non-stop harassment attacks.

On September 27, after a month of siege by the Tang army, the isolated Huazhou was conquered, and two of Huangchao's brothers were captured.

In October, feeling that the time was ripe, Li Keyong, together with Yang Fuguang and Yang Fugong, ordered a full-scale attack on Chang'an.

Li Keyong's Hedong Army still took the lead, and the Hezhong Army and the Zhongwu Army also participated, and the feudal towns that had not contributed to the work were now in a good situation, and they were not willing to miss the opportunity to beat the water dogs and take the opportunity to make war profits, so they quickly waved their troops to participate in the war.

Huangchao is trapped internally and externally, strong enemies are pressing, the situation is extremely bad, and Huangchao, who knows that it is finished, simply guards Chang'an. He built several lines of defense on the outskirts of Chang'an, and sent all the men he could catch into battle, men, women, and children, urging them to resist desperately.

The battle was extremely fierce, and the army of more than 20 feudal towns, with a total of more than 400,000 soldiers and horses, fiercely attacked Chang'an. In just one day, there were three battles between the two armies of Tang and Qi, and the Qi army was defeated in three battles and three defeats, and the Chengjiu defense line completely collapsed.

On 6 October, the various units of the Tang army gathered a huge force of 1,000 capitals, and according to the normal establishment, the number of people in the Shence army was 1,000, and the number of people in the ordinary feudal towns was mostly 100. The armies of the more than 20 feudal towns vary in size, some have 35,000 people per capital, and some have 100 people per capital. The more than 1,000 capitals that have been assembled, collectively known as Qiandu, actually have a total strength of 400,000 troops, including logistics auxiliaries.

The Battle of Qiandu began, starting in the morning and continuing into the afternoon, Li Keyong's Hedong Army was the first to break through the outer city, and then fought street battles with the Qi army that refused to surrender and fought the trapped beasts.

Huang Chao also took off the golden dragon robe, threw away the balance crown, changed into a golden battle armor, rolled up his sleeves, and commanded the Qi army to deploy in the Qionglou Yuyu of the royal palace with a long knife, taking advantage of the favorable terrain of every palace and every royal road to start a fierce street battle with the Li Keyong army who broke through.

But today's Chang'an is not Tongguan more than two years ago, and his "royal driving expedition" cannot save the defeat!

By the time the fierce battle reached dusk, Li Keyong's vanguard had already occupied the Shengyang Hall of Wangchun Palace in the east of Daming Palace, and the Qi army's defense in the Forbidden Garden was once again routed. Although Huang Chao was unwilling at this time, he also understood that he had failed, completely failed.

After a long sigh, he wiped the blood on his face, and gasped heavily, several years of life as an emperor in the deep palace made him once brave, but now he was unable to carry the sword. The battle just now had already taken him breathless. Those beautiful concubines and palace ladies in Chang'an Palace corrupted him.

Gentle Township, that is, the Hero's Mound, he suddenly remembered this sentence.

Looking back at the Daming Palace that he had become accustomed to, he sighed again, farewell, Chang'an, my imperial capital!

Subsequently, Huang Chao ordered to set fire to the Daming Palace and the surrounding forbidden garden, and let the Qi army break through and evacuate Chang'an.

Huang Chao didn't leave, for Huang Chao, the former Luodi scholar and smuggler of salt, he was already old and couldn't escape. And this life, ending at this time, has already satisfied him. He used to be a fallen scholar and a smuggler of salt, but he sounded the death knell of the Tang Dynasty, he swept the world, set off pieces of bloody storms, cut off the heads of the magnates who were once arrogant and contemptuous of him, and conquered the concubines and beauties who were once high and noble and could not be looked up to, and the wealthy ladies and ladies conquered the crotch.

He put on the golden armor, put on the Ming Huang dragon robe, put on the balance crown, ascended to the ninety-five supreme position, and sat on the dragon chair.

Enough, even if you die now, it will not be in vain for this life to roll in the red dust.

The flames were rising, the palace was already on fire everywhere, but Huang Chao was standing proudly in golden armor, smiling! (To be continued......)